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Topic: Sangrur

How a Punjab IAS officer is facing PMO and DoPT heat over critical post against Centre’s flood relief

Despite explanation and apology, DC Sangrur, who says he was on the field when the post was put up, has been issued show cause notice by the state government.

What comeback of Simranjit Singh Mann, a vocal Khalistan advocate, means for Punjab politics

An IPS officer-turned-Khalistan activist-turned-politician, 77-year-old Mann won Punjab’s Sangrur Lok Sabha seat Sunday — his first poll victory since 1999. Observers say the time was right.

Simranjit Singh Mann is reborn because there’s an uneasy vacuum in Punjab

By electing AAP three months ago, people of Punjab had shown they were fed up with the vicious power circle of BJP-SAD-Congress. They are now teaching AAP the same lesson.

Simranjit Mann drops ‘Striving for Khalistan’ from Twitter bio after bypoll win, then restores it

Mann, chief of an Akali Dal splinter faction, was elected to Sangrur seat Sunday. An ex-IPS officer who resigned to protest Operation Blue Star, he has a history of pro-Khalistan comments.

Simranjit Mann of SAD-Amritsar is back with big win in Sangrur, blow to AAP & Bhagwant Mann

Loss comes as a huge setback after the party's thumping win in March; law and order was a major poll factor and so was perception of being remote controlled by the AAP Delhi leadership

Lost seat but still a ‘winner’ — why SAD’s Sangrur candidate is a talking point despite poll defeat

Winnerjit Singh Goldy was able to secure just 7.24% (10,488) votes in the Punjab assembly elections, while AAP’s Narinder Kaur Bharaj won with 74,851 votes.

Why these 3 Punjab seats bucked state trend and saw high voter turnout

The constituencies of Ferozepur, Bathinda and Sangrur recorded over 70% voter turnout even as polling in the rest of the state was at a 10-year low.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.